Describe how children grapple with false beliefs as they develop a theory of mind

What will be an ideal response?

Dramatic evidence for preschoolers' belief–desire reasoning comes from games that test whether they realize that false beliefs—ones that do not represent reality accurately—can guide people's behavior. For example, most 18-month-olds—after witnessing an object moved from one box to another while an adult was not looking—helped the adult, when he tried to open the original box, locate the object in the new box. Among children of diverse cultural and SES backgrounds, false-belief understanding strengthens gradually after age 3½, becoming more secure between ages 4 and 6. Mastery of false belief signals a change in representation—the ability to view beliefs as interpretations, not just reflections, of reality. With the realization that people can increase their knowledge by making mental inferences, school-age children extend false-belief understanding further.